Just as young children eagerly await Christmas morning, horse players do the same for Breeders’ Cup. It is the culmination of the racing year, featuring the best thoroughbreds from around the world. For the fifth consecutive year, it will be a two-day event (Friday, Nov. 4th and Saturday, Nov. 5th) with total purses exceeding $25 million. Churchill Downs will be the venue for the 26th annual Breeders’ Cup and will be expanded by one race, from 14 to 15 with the introduction of the $500k Juvenile Sprint.

Day 1 (Friday) will feature six (6) Breeders’ Cup races on a Churchill Downs 10-race card. 1st race Post Time at 2:00pm EDT with the Breeders’ Cup race slated for race 5 through the finale, race 10. Here’s the line-up. All Post Times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time and will be televised on ESPN2 and ESPN3:

Day 2 (Saturday) will feature nine (9) Breeders’ Cup races on a Churchill Downs 12-race card. 1st race Post Time at 12:05pm EDT with the Breeders’ Cup race slated for race 3 through the finale, race 11. Here’s the line-up. All Post Times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time with televised coverage spanning three networks, shown to the right of Post Times:

A plethora of wager types will be offered throughout the two-day event as a suddenly popular Pick-5 will make its Breeders’ Cup debut. There will be guaranteed pools for five (5) of the multi-race wagers (Pick-4’s and Pick-6’s). All wager types with betting minimums are as follows…